Back in April we had a few set backs with our AO including mum contesting, change of judge and a lack of paperwork.
The paperwork issue meant the court was adjourned and the next available date was set for 11 weeks. We were devastated as 11 weeks seemed an eternity for an issue with paperwork but it turned out the judge (who requested to swap onto this case as she was on it originally) was on holiday for a whole month.
Paperwork was acquired by SS and sent back to the court but now there is another issue with the same paperwork that cannot be fixed as the judge is away and will not be able to sort in time for our court date.
I am so fed up. The SW keep describing it as a "catalogue of unfortunate events" that have led to all the delays but all I can see is mistakes made mostly by the courts and some by SS that mean DD will have been with us almost a year by the time she is officially ours.
I know this happens when people contest etc but we haven't even got that far really. BM wants to but no evidence has been heard etc because everyone involved keeps messing up and delaying things.
IMO the judge is massively at fault here for insisting she takes the case knowing that she was not going to have any availability for weeks if things did not go through on the first one (I am assured it would not have gone through the first time due to BM contesting).
Such a mess and all anyone can say is "just carry one, she is your DD and that's all you need". Its not like that though. I know she legally isn't ours and I don't feel I can properly move on with our lives with SW constantly hovering around us.
Thanks if you got to the end. I just needed a place to rant.